ALBANIA - Mike McCombie Family. Recently Komi and I were able to lead Dilaver and Hasan to the Lord. They have given their testimonies to the church and have been baptized. We also had 27 folks at a banquet with eight who had never been in a church of any kind before visiting ours.
CZECH REPUBLIC - David Ostenson Family. My son Daniel and I were expecting our usual group of three children for Sunday School. Praise the Lord, a total of thirteen children and four adults were here! One of the mothers from the apartments where we visit came for the first time. Our Bible correspondence course is going well with people from 86 cities in this part of the Czech Republic responding.
ENGLAND - Ford Baker Family. We had a very special soul-winning day in Leicester city center last month. Several preachers and over 30 other people came to help us share the gospel by street preaching and passing out thousands of Gospel tracts.
Mark Bell Family. Praise the Lord for saving our neighbor, Mr. Frank Jordan. Over 2 1/2 years, He has become a very dear friend. We have always invited him to church but he politely declined. Finally he began attending and came for several months, still unsaved, until he asked question's about the Lord's Supper. After I explained the plan of salvation to him, he asked the Lord to save him.
John Jones Family. Anne, one of our ladies, has been praying for her family for over a year. Her entire family attended a service recently. Afterwards, her son-in-law Ben said he had never heard anything like that before. He has been attending faithfully and we are praying for his salvation. Also Anne's husband Joe rededicated his life to the Lord.
Glenn Palmer Family. There has been an increase in the Englishmen who are participating in the open-air town center meetings and attending the School of Evangelism on Saturdays. Over 60 people attended our annual church dinner and 46 came to a special choir concert.
Glenn Pizor Family. Since the baptism of Theresa and Maureen, some of their relatives continue to attend our church. Please pray for Denise. I was invited to speak at a local public school assembly to 500 seventh and eighth graders. Most young people listened attentively.
Tommy Pointer Family. We have had several new couples join in the past couple of months, three baptized and two saved and awaiting baptism. Kym was able to lead a 16-year-old girl to the Lord and I a 30-year-old man. What a blessing!
Jim Reynolds Family. The Lord has made it possible for us to rent a building here in Hoddesdon. We will be having meetings on Thursday and Sunday evenings, while our main service for Sunday morning will continue to be held in Enfield.
Ben Wharton Family (recently became missionaries to the UK). In a recent time out with the Lifegate School of Evangelism in Corby, I was able to preach for the first time in the open air. I have been amazed at the response and the opportunities that we have had to share the gospel with people while on the streets.
FRANCE - Carey Abbett Family. We just returned from winter camp in the Vosges Mountains in eastern France. There were about 50 adults and young people at the retreat. The Lord clearly blessed the teaching and preaching.
Bob Huffman Family. We praise the Lord for a record Sunday with 150 in attendance. Four candidates gave their testimonies and their desire to follow the Lord in obedience. We have less than 9,000 Bibles to give out from the 29,000 Bibles provided through love gifts.
GERMANY - Dan Dubbe Family. "Stretching our faith and building relationships" is our goal for 2004. With God's help, we will use our teen outreach, a concentrated discipleship training program, missions conference and other programs to accomplish this.
Michael Fields Family. Cheri and I are progressing in our language studies. We have been able to speak completely in German in the children's ministries of our church. We have also been able to share the Gospel with a few people both in German and English.
Walter Hornung Family. We had a baptism with one German lady and an Iranian lady following the Lord's command. The German lady has been saved a number of years and is regularly attending the church services.
Rodney Kidd Family. The goal of our church is to work toward starting a daughter church in a section of northern Mannheim where there is no real significant gospel witness. We have three families attending our church who are willing to be a part of that endeavor.
HUNGARY - Marc Patton Family. Our average Sunday attendance over the past couple of months has been 90-95 with 40-45 on Thursday evening. We recently had 106 on Sunday morning. We are now supporting four Hungarian church planters every month. It was exciting to see the salvation of two men recently.
LATVIA - Jonathan Thompson Family. We are still rejoicing in the salvation of Rudita and the baptism of her and her grandson. Also, we were finally able to obtain a four year visa. This is a gift from God.
NORTHERN IRELAND - Ed Bissett Family. Our youngest daughter, Heather, has been taking riding lessons from a lady named Valerie Dennison. Valerie came to church at Heather's invitation and my wife Joan was able to lead her to the Lord.
POLAND - Darrell Johnson Family. Piotr (Peter), a man who has been saved before coming, has recently been visiting our church. Also we praise God for the faithfulness of the Kowalczky Family.
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND - Bob Zemeski Family. Raji is from a Hindu background, newly married and works for IBM. She has made a profession of faith in Christ. Please pray for her.
ROMANIA - Tom Gentry Family. Hope for the Future School of Missions is now off and running with 21 students. They recently helped me in evangelist meetings in a nearby city and seven people came to the Lord that night.
Ed Hembree Family. The children's home continues to be a source of much joy and challenge. We are so pleased to see progress emotionally, intellectually, academically and especially spiritually with each child.
Keith Herndon Family. Metro explained to me that "house sanctifying" was done by the Orthodox priest with "holy water." It is to keep the unclean spirits away. I showed Metro from the Bible to keep them away he needed to invite Jesus into his heart. He prayed with his own words to receive Christ.
Brian Nibbe Family. We praise the Lord for removing obstacles and we now have official ownership of our land so we can build. We now have about 20 people going soul winning each week. I just led a 32-year-old man to the Lord.
Tim Tyler Family. Our church hosted a quarterly youth rally with over 50 young people from 4 communities. Our family is working together to acquire the Romanian language as quickly as possible. Many nights, we have up to ten teens playing basketball in our courtyard. We are trying to use this interaction not only to learn the language but also to build relationships.
RUSSIA - Andrew Bunnell Family. Sasha and I had played basketball together for several months. He is an orphan and had lived in a state home. Recently I led him to Christ. For the first time since the death of his parents, he felt the love of a Father.
Kyle Charters Family. Dema is a former drug addict who was imprisoned for robbery. He received Christ as his Savior while being treated in a special prison mental health hospital. His sentence was reduced as a result of the dramatic change in his life. Soon after his release, he began attending our church. Please pray for the salvation of his wife Marina and his son Dennis.
Robert Fuller (deaf missionary to the deaf). We started a new Bible Study for deaf students from Technicum in Pavlovsk. The results were four students got saved. All four have expressed their desire of following the Lord's commandment of baptism.
Duane Hearron Family. A note from thirteen-year-old Julia Skakun, a Christian teen in Hearron's church: "I prayed for my mother to be saved for over one year. Not long ago she was saved."
Don Ossewaarde Family. We have been visiting several village around the region within 100 miles of where we live. We give out Gospel tracts and talk to the people door-to-door. A few people have responded by writing back.
Adam Young Family. Tatiana and her husband were very friendly and invited me in while I was out door knocking. I gave them our survey that we use. Tatiana prayed to accept Christ. Please pray for Alexander her husband.
SCOTLAND - Doug Cameron Family. Our driving teacher, Phil, and I met a few evenings a week and I gave him tracts and booklets to read. One Friday evening, sitting in his living room, he received Christ and a new life. Praise the Lord! He has been attending church since then.
Arvin Devers Family. We can only squeeze 45 chairs into our meeting place but had 41 in attendance. Decision cards were filled out with "undecided" by some who had completely rejected the Gospel in the past. This new openness is a positive step forward in our ministry.
Graham Forbes Family. Our new four-page magazine called THE GLENBURN BEACON is one of the best outreaches we have done. Because of this magazine, we have had visitors and our teenage puppet ministry was invited to a nursing home. Now we are starting a ministry in that nursing home.
Mickey Schrimshire Family. We are presently assisting Graham and Melinda Forbes at Glenburn Baptist Church. After a message I preached on soul winning, one of the men approached me. He said if soul winning is something that can be learned, then he wanted to learn.
Dennis Snelson Family. We have had the privilege to lead a lady, Jane, to the Lord. She was eager to learn the lessons we teach in our discipleship course. Through Jane, I have also had the opportunity to witness to a military officer named Ben. Please pray for his salvation.
SLOVAKIA - Ellis Johnston Family. We have four new students for our English course. We pray that this can be used as a way to win souls for Christ.
SPAIN - Clayton Livengood Family. God has blessed in our mission giving. We currently support eleven missionaries at 50 Euros per month. We are presently doubling the space of our auditorium.
SWITZERLAND - Tim Carnicle Family. I was witnessing to a man named Bruno, who was very receptive to the gospel. He seemed very perplexed about what he heard and told me he was never taught to read the Bible for himself. Please pray for his salvation.
UKRAINE - Tony Hess Family. Era is a teen girl in our class who has been coming with Lena. We have been praying for her salvation. One evening after the service, Tony and Joshua took the girls home. Before they got out of the van, Era said, "I am ready to make a decision. I want to walk the Jesus walk." Praise the Lord.
Matthew Hudson Family. A lady in our church brought her unsaved coworker Larissa to a service. Larissa didn't respond to the invitation, but after the service she told me that she had been wanting to receive Christ. It was a blessing to watch her bow her head and trust Jesus to save her.
Dan Irvin Family. Over a year ago, I tried to get into a prison to preach but was denied. But God has opened the door. Praise the Lord, we have been averaging about 15 in our prison meetings.
Bob Van Sant Family. The ministry at the Children's Orphanage has been going very well with three young teens recently accepting Christ as their Savior. Our auditorium is practically full for our services with 90 in the hearing service and 60 in the deaf.
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.